Stalk forming huge cracks...what's going on?!

[Bradley_Danks]

sealing off wounds can be a doubled edged sword. Unless you inoculate with beneficial microbes first you could be sealing up an anerobic fungi or bacteria that will flourish with low levels of O2. Its best to keep the area dry and with plenty of circulation IMO.... I inoculate wounds with a trichoderma H and Trich. Kongoli when I get any wounds from branches breaking or otherwise....

No mushy areas and no visible root rot. I have had root rot before and look closely for rotting on the stalks.

How do you inoculate the wounds?

Maybe I should take wax off stock and inoculate?

My soil pH is 6.6

I've been learning alot about foliar sprays this year more than ever. I love em . Thanks for the tips!

Here's my soil report to get a better idea:

 

[FatherEarth]

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Tin Foil Hat check

From Hemp pests and diseases:

FUSARIUM WILT
The pathogen causing this disease is a xylem inhabitant, rather than a cortical pathogen like the aforementioned fusarium species. It plugs plant water-conducting tissues and causes a wilt. Fusarium wilt is a serious disease in eastern Europe (Dobrozrakova et al., 1956, Rataj 1957, Ceapoiu 1958, Czyzewska & Zarzycka 1961, Serzane 1962, Zhalnina 1969), Italy (Noviello & Snyder 1962),and southern France (Barloy & Pelhate 1962).It may occur in Pakistan (Ghani et al. 1978) and the USA (McPartland 1983a).Gitman (196813)considered it a little-known disease in the former USSR. The causal fun- gus also causes damping-off in seedlings (Pietkiewicz 1958, Zelenay 1960, Barloy & Pelhate 1962).

A scientist at UC-Berkeley, Arthur McCain, suggested to President Nixon that Fusarium wilt could destroy illegal marijuana cultivation (Shay 1975).Subsequently, the Nixon administration funded research to mass-produce the wilt fungus (Hildebrand & McCain 1978). Zubrin (1981) interviewed McCain, who claimed, "Just introduce a couple of pounds [of the fungus] into an area, and while it wouldn't have much of an effect the first year, in several years it would spread throughout the country with devastating results." The project was terminated by Carter administration officials (Zubrin 1981).

Interest in eradicating "Cannabis sativa" (Sands 1991) with the wilt fungus resumed during the Reagan/Bush administration. A virulent isolate of the fungus was collected in Russia; Ronald Collins subsequently released the patho- gen in a USDA field plot in Beltsville, Maryland. The fungus attacked Calztznbis plants, successfully overwintered in the soil, then killed seedlings planted in the same soil the following year (Sands 1991). More recently, 25 strains of the fungus were isolated by researchers in Russia and Kazakhstan (Semenchenko et al. 1995).Some strains reduced Cannaabis survival by up to 80% (Tiourebaev et al. 1998).The current deployment of genetic engineering to create super- wilt cannabis pathogens has elicited public outrage and-sci- entific criticism (McPartland & West 1999).

 

[Noonin NorCal]

After seeing this post i decided to take a look under the skirts of a couple of my ladies outside, mine seem to be doing the same. I have protekt silica id hate to spray another thing on my plants so far they have gotten Azamax and BT applications every week or so and will probly end up getting a few doses of green cure also. I noticed you can add it to your solution or just water and water it in? The dosage per gallon is barely anything for the Protekt, what should i go with per gallon of water it says only 1/4 or 1/2 per gallon i think? Thanks

 

[Bradley_Danks]

After seeing this post i decided to take a look under the skirts of a couple of my ladies outside, mine seem to be doing the same. I have protekt silica id hate to spray another thing on my plants so far they have gotten Azamax and BT applications every week or so and will probly end up getting a few doses of green cure also. I noticed you can add it to your solution or just water and water it in? The dosage per gallon is barely anything for the Protekt, what should i go with per gallon of water it says only 1/4 or 1/2 per gallon i think? Thanks

Says 1/2 teaspoon a gallon and to spot check first. Did that and their directions worked well.

 

[FatherEarth]

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... For protekt I'd spray 1/8 -1/4 tsp per gallon foliar also spraying calcium would be great too.... Albion metalosate Ca powder ....

 

[FatherEarth]

Look up a product called "silmatrix"

 

[Bradley_Danks]

I was getting ready to melt down some paraffin wax and do some coating, but decided to take another quick peek first, and now it just seems like a normal mostly green stalk with some stretch marks, most of the nooks crannies filled in.

Noticed some spots where the branches split a main stem in half, but eventually sealed and turned the half-split stem into a regular branch and a knot where the split stopped.

Not sure if waxing is going to help any at this point.

Thoughts?

Pics tomorrow if I remember.

Maybe not. I notice the cracks getting so huge on my stalk that the wax is falling off. The plant is doing so much better though. Not sure what to think of the cracks.

I visited some big plants that are clones of the qrazy train at another garden today and they don't have any cracks in the stalks. But they are Experiencing some of the wilting my plants were doing.

what I'm noticing is that both of my qrazy train phenos are very sensitive to heat. The only other plant that does that is my papaya pheno. Seems like I'm learning a lesson about pheno hunting here. Got lucky last year using clones from dispensaries and friends. My garden is mostly from seed this year.

 

[Robrites]

Maybe not. I notice the cracks getting so huge on my stalk that the wax is falling off. The plant is doing so much better though. Not sure what to think of the cracks.

I visited some big plants that are clones of the qrazy train at another garden today and they don't have any cracks in the stalks. But they are Experiencing some of the wilting my plants were doing.

what I'm noticing is that both of my qrazy train phenos are very sensitive to heat. The only other plant that does that is my papaya pheno. Seems like I'm learning a lesson about pheno hunting here. Got lucky last year using clones from dispensaries and friends. My garden is mostly from seed this year.

Hey - How did the cracking/wilting play out?